For a number of years I have gone through my daily life with nothing in my mind.
This is a cool way to be. I call it mindlessness. Mindlessness is not passive, but it is not doing. In mind -less-ness we are in a state of one-ness. A stated of being enlivened.
Mindlessness started for me when I was a kid, then I lost it for years as I was immersed in the adult world of having to set goals and focus and be productive and force my body and mind to do things. Whilst I could do all that with a lot of skill, it came at a cost. My body ached, my mind was exhausted I was always pushing and striving towards what I was told I had to do. Things involved struggle and efforting. I became the adult ‘doing’ not the childlike ‘being’.
Contrast that with this:
As a kid I’d sit in trees and close my eyes and connect with the tree and the birds and the sky. I’d go horse-riding through the bush and listen to the sounds of the forest. I’d go down the beach and listen to the ocean and feel the sand between my toes and become one with the sea. I felt like I could fly. I would imagine myself as a bird and o would soar above everything with an expanded view. I would leap form rock to rock down the beach like I was weightless. I would ride my bike 6 inches from the edge of the cliff without fear but with the awareness of my body in space. I never once had an ‘accident’.
Did you ever do anything like that as a child? Was your mind full of stuff? Were you sitting meditating? No, you were just being free and open and aware of your surroundings and your place as part of it. That was fun and it was easy.
When you are just being you don’t have to engage your mind. Children know how to be this, and when you are in that space you have access to everything. Information comes through, awareness is easy, your intuition is strong, you sense things and you know things. This is so much easier and faster than thinking.
The times my life was easy and flowed and was effortless were the times I was in my space of being as a child does and magic happened. I am able to be twice as productive in this state as I can work quicker with my knowing and awareness than with trying to work everything out by thinking. You can still do all the ‘adult’ things with the awareness of a child. Does that sound easier and more fun?
Your mind is an amazing faculty in which you don’t have to store anything. Yes you read that right. It isn’t actually a library like you think. It is more like a fishing net that catches what you put your attention on. If you put your attention on certain things or feelings, your mind will catch those things and your reality will be created with them. If you think, your mind will do that bidding. If you are in a state of being however, your mind then becomes the servant of your heart in contributing to you living authentically. You can ditch all the stuff you had stored in there and anything you need will naturally come through to you as its not trying to get past all the stuff in storage. You will have a knowing and be magnetised towards something you really desire from your heart, and then your mind can assist you in it actualising. Eg you really feel a strong pull to go to cuba. Then your mind helps you organise the tickets. There is no ‘should’ involved. In this way things happen easily as if by magic.
Mindlessness doesn’t come from focus. It doesn’t come from sitting cross legged gazing at your nose. Mindlessness means you don’t have to ‘do’ anything. You don’t ‘do’ mindless practice.
Mindless is not about adding. Mindlessness is about letting go of. It comes through being authentically you, following your passion, laughing, letting go of the past as something that doesn’t need to define your present or your future. It can be as easy as just saying to yourself. This is done. From this now moment I disentangle myself from the story, the labels, the projections of others, the expectations of those around me, the judgements of myself, the should and have to’s – as they aren’t yours, and the need to make goals.
Nature is mindless, doesn’t make goals. It doesn’t think. A tree doesn’t say, when I grow up im going to be a giraffe. Nature is in an infinite state of being. It doesn’t try to hold onto things that have finished their time. It lets them go, allows them to return to the oneness of everything and for the new to emerge, fresh and alive. Nature doesn’t judge itself. It accepts itself as it is and thrives without making uo stories. Nature is in a constant state of knowing. A seed knows how to grow.
So trust your self and your knowing and allow yourself to relax into that space, ease and enlivenment.
To be in mindlessness is to be aware, in your knowing and at one with all that is.